200 Companies who acquired better domain names (2.Viewing)

RedRider · Jan 17, 2021

https://dnd.com/200-companies-who-acquired-better-domain-names/

The fun facts is that 73% of these sales were not reported

Nafti · Jan 17, 2021

That is a great list.

I was hoping to see some .ca’s on there.

Esdiel · Jan 17, 2021

Nafti said:
That is a great list.

I was hoping to see some .ca’s on there.

There are 2 .CAs on the list actually:

1) voila.ca (owned by Sobeys); and

2) indigo.ca (aka Chapters).

Both companies did indeed acquire the matching .COM but both also still use the .CA for their website (and use the .com to forward to it).

So while this article makes it sound like they abandoned the .CA for the more prestigious .COM, it's not exactly true. It's more like they bought them to make sure nobody else did.

Nafti · Jan 17, 2021